That's Not A Knife

Measure twice, cut once. - Craftsman Aphorism

Don't catch a falling knife. - Trader's Saying

Trust everybody, but cut the cards. - Finley Peter Dunne

Within every heart there is a knife. - Indian Saying

A little axe can cut down a big tree. - Jamaican Saying

Measure a thousand times and cut once. - Turkish Proverb

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. - Rabindranath Tagore

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. - W H Auden

You trust your mother, but you cut the cards. - Unknown

Drama is real life with the dull bits cut out. - Alfred Hitchcock

Eunuch: A man who has had his works cut out for him. - Robert Byrne

Surgeon: The person who was a cut-up at medical school - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I had plastic surgery last week. I cut up my credit cards. - Henny Youngman

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself. - Harrison Ford

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. - Nora Ephron

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. - Chuck Palahniuk

Save a thief from the gallows and he will be the first to cut your throat. - Italian Proverb

There's something fundamentally wrong with bringing a knife to a gun fight. - Sean Connery

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six. - Yogi Berra

After you cut off a person's nose there is no point in giving him a rose to smell. - Ravi Zacharias

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. - John Webster

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives. - Billy Connolly

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. - Virginia Woolf

I could juggle anything in my day: balls, cigar boxes, knives. But I could never juggle my income tax. - WC Fields

I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein. - George W. Bush

Did you hear about the auto worker who was offered a position as president of a bank but couldn't afford the pay cut? - Unknown

Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit - Life! - Emily Dickinson

The tropical rain forests are a telling example. Once cut down, they rarely recover. Rainfall drops, deserts spread, the climate warms. - James Lovelock

The axe cannot boast of the tree it has cut down. It could do nothing but for the woodsman. He made it, he sharpened it, and he used it. - Samuel Brengel

The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people. - Thomas Guthrie

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology. - John Spencer

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. - Colin Powell

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash. - Joan Rivers

Character is not cut in marble, but is living and changing, and subject to disease, as our bodies are. Character is not made in a crisis - it's only exhibited. - Robert Freeman

Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed. - Paul Harvey

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing. - Gamal Abdul Nasser

Writer's block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus' poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows. - Joseph Campbell

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture. When you realize you've made a mistake, you need to cut your losses and move on. - Howard Schultz

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws. - Rosa Parks

The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing. - Russell Peters